Everybody knows WEP is not secure. Everybody knows that dictionary passwords are a piece of cake. But Windows XP!? I was surprised. I figured it wouldn’t be too hard, but 3m, that’s all!?
My password is not a dictionary word (it’s not any kind of word at all), it has CAPITAL letters, small letters, and digits. It’s 11 characters long. I didn’t think it would be so easy to hack.
Yesterday a friend of mine was telling me about Rainbow attacks. After reading a bit about the theory I figured it was worth a try. Following the links from Wikipedia I downloaded Ophcrack Live CD for cracking windows XP passwords. The download took a while because the tables are pretty big, but once I had the .iso the rest was pretty fast.
I booted from the CD, and after less than 3m I saw my password next to my Windows XP username, I didn’t even have to touch the any key.
I’m not yet sure what I’ll do next.
Dan
